Orbital Plastics & Lacrimal (OPAL) Fellow

The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital is a world class specialist hospital in eye and ear care providing services across Victoria. As Australia’s only specialist eye, ear, nose and throat hospital, the Eye and Ear has been providing care for the senses for over 160 years. The Eye and Ear has almost 90 different outpatient clinics for the diagnosis, monitoring and treatment of vision and hearing loss and provides a 24-hour emergency eye and ear, nose and throat service. 

Every year the Eye and Ear cares for nearly 200,000 patients, with over 136,000 outpatients, over 42,000 emergency patients and over 14,000 inpatients. The hospital recently completed a major redevelopment to create a modern internal structure and to improve access for patients, visitors and staff.

Our Vision

We will inspire and advance specialist eye and ENT care.

Our Mission

We improve health and wellbeing outcomes through excellence in:

1.           Clinical Care

2.           Teaching

3.           Education

4.           Research

5.           Innovation

Our Values - Integrity, Inclusive and Accessible Care, Collaboration, Excellence

About the Role

12-month Fellowship commencing February 2026

The OPAL Fellowship has a strong clinical component, with a busy operating schedule and clinics with a significant number of new tertiary referrals from a wide and steady source, as well as emergency patients.

In addition three OPAL outpatient clinics per fortnight, the Fellow will be rostered to shifts in our specialised Emergency Department.  This is an excellent opportunity to maintain general ophthalmology skills, at the same time as providing a valuable educational resource to other medical staff working within the Department. 

There are three to five theatre lists per week with the opportunity to undertake solo lists after Orientation and assessment.  The Fellow may also gain additional surgical experience by private assisting OPAL Consultants.   

The Fellow will participate in the Unit’s and Emergency Department’s on-call roster and is expected to be involved in education and supervision of junior trainee registrars.

Salary and conditions of employment for the clinical fellows will be in accordance with the Australian Medical Association (Victoria) Doctors-in-Training Agreement 2022-2026.

The Eye and Ear is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to providing a work environment free from harassment or discrimination and to promoting cultural diversity and awareness in the workplace.

The Eye and Ear is a smoke free environment.

Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people are strongly encouraged to apply.  

At The Royal Victorian Eye and Ear Hospital, we are committed to supporting people with disability to gain employment and develop their careers; we encourage you to apply. If you would like further information about this role, please contact the hiring manager.

All appointments are subject to a satisfactory Police Record Check, a working with children check (if applicable) and evidence of vaccination status. All staff must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19 (3 doses) and for clinical staff, patient facing staff and staff working in clinical areas, it is a mandatory requirement to provide evidence of a current influenza vaccination.

Please click on the links to the following documents:

Medical Staff Application Form:          Junior Medical Staff Application Form

Application Guidelines:                        Application Guidelines for Junior Medical Staff

Position Description:                            OPAL Fellow 2026

For further information please contact Fellowrecruitment@eyeandear.org.au or telephone the JMS Coordinator on (61 3) 9929 8191

Application Close: 30th April 2025